[work in progress for the project BORDER curated by Sophia Kilassonia /art_CP_studio/]
Behind the project BioMetric_Other stands a personal story of every non-eu/non-us citizen with his/her desire to achieve better conditions for professional/personal development. For such people the only possible way to get higher education acclaimed by world standards, to get a normal job in their own country or even just to improve their social conditions is to apply to a various institutions abroad [mainly in EU and US].
Understandable procedure of papers, documentations, applications etc. is accompanied by the very dramatic inner background which reduces self-esteem of the applicant and very often puts him/her in an offensive situation outlining the gasp between him/her and the civilized world. Under the compulsory non-eu/non-us field in searching for the nationality, ethnicity, race etc. very often the only possible word that matches to applicant is other. Being other _ being out of the normal, civilized and privileged world _ becomes an offensive mark which identifies the person merely to a not desired object, to a paper of correctly filled application, to a biometric photo [5 x 5] taken within the last 6 months, to a sum of enormous amount of papers eliminating the fact of being a potential emigrant…
Being other becomes a destiny, tattoo - imprinted deeply on one’s soul and mind and the mark proving one’s illegibility to a normal life.
|| BioMetric_Other
|| the lost ones [2006]
Gallery “Universe”, Tbilisi /Georgia/ 2006
idea & curator:
Sophie Kilassonia
participants:
:: Figurative Art Studio ::
Levan Mindiashvili installation, layout, photography, video, sound design
Malkhaz Datashvili sculpture, photography
Tato Akhalkatsishvili painting
Irakli Bugianishvili photography
Project :The Lost Ones: considered revealing and rehabilitating the most marginalized social problems of our society, existing since collapse of the Soviet Union and still remaining unsolved and even ignored:
• males and females emigrated abroad for earning minimal living goods for their families
• refugees from Abkhazia
• generation of our parents (of 50s and 60s)
• young generation
• vagabond children
• homeless new born babies with mental diseases
::Males:: Homage to Michel Houellebecq and Pete Kuzak
[] to every Male, trying being Male; to every Male, pretending Male; to every Male, not being able to be Male; To every Male, seeking for Love; to every Male, not being able to Love; to my Father []
#1, 2006
egg tempera & charcoal on panel, 110 x 100 cm.
#2, 2006
egg tempera & charcoal on panel, 37 x 110 cm.
#3, 2006
egg tempera & charcoal on panel, 37 x 110 cm.
::Females:: Homage to Pedro Almodovar & Anna Kordzaia -Samadashvili
[] to every Female loosing Feminity; to every Female seeking for Feminity; to every Female seeking for Love; to every Female being able to Love; to every Female of my Family []
#1, 2006
print, fabric, paper & stones on board, 58 x 43 cm.
:Females' room: with the sculptor of Malkhaz Datashvili, paintings of Vaktang Akhalkatsishvili and collages of Levan Mindiashvili
::Refugees::
stills from the video refugees and the sculptor of Malkhaz Datashvili
Gallery :Universe: Tbilisi /Georgia/ 2006
